Genres: Graphic Design, Interdisciplinary art, Social Change, Public Advocacy, Grassroots Communication
Languages: English
Interest: My primary are of interest is in socially responsible design practice. I am actively involved in street art and screen printing. My current research is looking at you tube as a vehicle in advocating social change.
Projects I would be interesting in supervising include, screenprinting, youth media, advocacy, education design, political graphics, social network software and community engagement.
Bio: Russell Kerr is the Honours Coordinator of RMIT’s Design Consultancy, The Works. Russell has a BA in Graphic Design with Honours from the University of Ballarat, Currently he is completing a Masters in Public Advocacy and Action at Victoria University. Russell’s Masters thesis is entitled ‘The quest for ‘something nicer’: An investigation of grassroots communication and it’s relationship with student unionism in 21st century Australia’. It explores what effect an undermined student union movement will have on arts-based grassroots community advocacy in Australia. Russell’s research investigates socially responsible practice and youth’s creation and consumption of media.
Russell has extensive professional experience, working for 3 years at one of Australia’s premier design studios Inkahoots, and then subsequently running his own studio Transfer Press. Russell’s screen-printed posters are in the permanent collections of the State Library of Victoria and the Centre for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles.